Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring

Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring

by Henri J. M. Nouwen
Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring

Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

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Overview

One of the best-loved spiritual writers of our time—an author ranked with C.S. Lewis and Thomas Merton—Henry J.M. Nowuen, takes a moving, personal look at human mortality in Our Greatest Gift. A meditation on dying and caring, Our Greatest Gift gently and eloquently reveals the gifts that the living and dying can give to one another. The beloved bestselling author of With Open Hands, The Wounded Healer, and Making All Things New shares his own experiences with aging, loss, grief, and fear in this important and life-altering work.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061847264
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 10/13/2009
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 128
File size: 420 KB

About the Author

Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932–1996) was the author of The Return of the Prodigal Son and many other bestsellers. He taught at Harvard, Yale, and Notre Dame universities before becoming the pastor of L’Arche Daybreak near Toronto, Canada, a community where people with and without intellectual disabilities assist each other and create a home together.

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